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Little Treats Galore: A Holiday Gift Guide

An annual roundup of things to make life a bit sparklier, a bit easier, or just a bit sillier.

Put Your Money Where Your Loved One’s Mouth Is

A food writer’s annual guide to gastronomic gift giving.

The Knotty Death of the Necktie

The pandemic may have brought an end to a flourishing history.

Spoiler Alert: Leftovers for Dinner

How to host a dinner party for nine using a pre-trash haul from Too Good to Go and other food-waste apps. Carb-averse guests, beware.

Buy Your Loved Ones a Sequinned Double Cheeseburger: A Food-Themed Holiday Gift Guide

Kitchen tools, culinary trinkets, tinned treats, dinner-party fixings, and many more curios for the person of appetites in your life.

Soak and the City

New Yorkers don’t need wellness culture to sell them on the ancient art of communal bathing.

The Met Gala’s Reverential, Cat-Forward Karl Lagerfeld Looks

This year’s event featured plenty of gemstones, puffy fabrics, feathers, black leather, evening gloves, and homages to the late fashion designer’s feline friend.

New Items Are on Sale All Week in The New Yorker Store

As the holiday season begins, enjoy discounts of up to thirty per cent on apparel and home goods for yourself and your loved ones.

How to Relive the Pleasures of a Landline

With the help of an old rotary phone and a Bluetooth-hookup doodad, you, too, can feel like Rock Hudson gabbing in the bathtub.

How I Learned to Wear a Baseball Hat

The Internet is awash in novelty baseball hats, but I’ve found that the best ones are unearthed late at night, on eBay, guided by whatever keywords spring to mind.